As a Swedish columnist wrote: This will end in a constitutional crisis in the U.S. That is, that's the best outcome we can hope for.

Seeking an alliance with Putin is to get leverage against China. Europe and Ukraine are, from his perspective, irrelevant. Lies about the war in Ukraine, the status of legal systems and democracy in Europe, originate in this goal.

Trump strives to dismount both University and Democracy as institutions, so that the oligarchy, of which he is part, can rule the U.S. and the world as they see fit. Lies and misconceptions about woke, stolen elections, criminal immigrants etc, all originate in this ultimate goal.

I fail to understand why the affordance concept is so important. Very few who use it make any use of the psychological framework it was constructed for. This article seems to be identifying a useful abstraction level, if it is about affordancesm

Let’s just say that larpers drink less.

I hear you. There was a batch of those coming in when AOL joined the internet as well. And bikes were a thing even then 😜.

Boomers have been on the Internet since the eighties, kiddo.

Bluesky won’t resist enshittification,but hopefully it’ll resist fascism.

Is it recorded?